Graduate School Admission Results

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School Program Added On Decision
Penn State University
Communication PhD
February 03, 2022
Rejected on 3 Feb
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Rejected on 3 Feb
Fall 2022
American
Penn State University
Political Science PhD
February 03, 2022
Accepted on 3 Feb
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Accepted on 3 Feb
Fall 2022
International
GRE 170
GPA 3.90
Penn State University
Comparative Literature PhD
February 02, 2022
Accepted on 2 Feb
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Accepted on 2 Feb
Fall 2022
International
GPA 4.01

Call from DGS. Excited!!

Penn State University
Mathematics PhD
January 23, 2022
Interview on 9 Jan
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Interview on 9 Jan
Fall 2022
American
GRE 169
GPA 3.93

Invited to interview via email a week or so ago

Penn State University
Social Psychology PhD
January 22, 2022
Wait listed on 22 Jan
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Wait listed on 22 Jan
Fall 2022
International

Shortlisted. POI contacted me to update the application status, which I am not invited to the next round of interviews at this moment.

Penn State University
Aerospace Engineering PhD
January 18, 2022
Accepted on 18 Jan
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Accepted on 18 Jan
Fall 2022
American
GPA 4.00

GPA is Masters. Accepted w/ funding.

Penn State University
Social Psychology PhD
January 18, 2022
Interview on 18 Jan
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Interview on 18 Jan
Fall 2022
American

Invite to official interview day

Penn State University
Social Psychology PhD
January 18, 2022
Interview on 18 Jan
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Interview on 18 Jan
Fall 2022
International
GPA 3.96
Penn State University
Chemistry PhD
January 18, 2022
Accepted on 17 Jan
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Accepted on 17 Jan
Fall 2022
International
GRE 155
GRE V 151
GRE AW 4.00
GPA 3.69
Penn State University
Materials Science And Engineering PhD
January 18, 2022
Accepted on 11 Jan
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Accepted on 11 Jan
Fall 2022
International
GPA 3.30

No GRE, No TOEFL,low GPA. Interviewed with one PI in November and backgroud matches.

Penn State University
Chemical Engineering PhD
January 18, 2022
Accepted on 18 Jan
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Accepted on 18 Jan
Fall 2022
International
GRE 169
GRE V 150
GRE AW 4.00
GPA 3.59

2 years of research experience, top private school in India. 1 submitted paper, 1 conference presentation.

Penn State University
Electrical And Computer Engineering PhD
June 15, 2021
Wait listed on 15 Jun
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Wait listed on 15 Jun
Fall 2021

When? why? what? Any acceptances or rejections? WHY only 1 acceptance in Gradcafe history this year? WHY SO LONG???

Penn State (Pennsylvania State University)
Computer Science Masters
May 02, 2021
Accepted on 2 May
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Accepted on 2 May
Fall 2021
International

[TTBP]: I totally agree with your point. My friend got in Stanford MS because he knows a prof there who is willing to work with him. Many others I know as well. So, more than LUCK, it is about CONNECTION and knowing the RIGHT PERSON.

Penn State (PSU) University Park
Computer Science Masters
May 02, 2021
Accepted on 29 Apr
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Accepted on 29 Apr
Fall 2021
International

As a parent of a boy who has got admission into PennState, who wont be taking it since he has got Purdue and Wisc Mad PMP and will be most likely taking the former and will be considering OSU (another seat) along with PennState as trophies, I thought it right to comment about the situation this year as I have been following this site steadily for the past few months. My son has high end CGPA+rank from a top State college in India (forget this stupid Tier 1 etc that many Indian students rant about...I personally am an IIT B.Tech, IISc M.E. of yesteryears (1980s) and wont rant about it unnecessarily!) has 6 publications as on date (journal + conference...decent International ones...not the top most ones!) and I must say without doubt has been lucky to get what he got. I am aware of others with almost similar CGPA not getting any top 20 college, even some who are again seniors and rankers of my son from his college. I am also aware of some with lower CGPA and zero experience who have got top 20 from his college. While I admit, that I am illiterate in talking about SOP etc (as I never tried to go for higher studies in US in my times!), I can say that the idea that SOP defines the possibility sounds ridiculous. In fact one stupid comment I get from my son's contacts and even on net is that "dont mention financial help in SOP". To be precise my son mentioned it in almost all cases. There are comments about "dont underline or use bold" and I as the person who was helping review my son's SOP and even the LORs (which of course were accepted by his recommenders!) had BOLD, UNDERLINE and ITALICS. What I want to tell as a senior person about this GRAD program looking students are the following. 1. Getting a Univ in US (did not try other places) based on my son's and the others that I could track shows that IT IS JUST A LOTTERY. So many who are frustrated that what you perceive as you being better and not getting a college while somebody bad got it, just shows that you did not win the lottery. 2. While I said 1 above, certainly a CGPA of 9+ helps though I think 9.5+ seems to have a bit of negative effect especially in the top 30 colleges sometimes. They probably rejected you because they thought you were not going to join or you were not the right fit. 3. Coming to the above point, RIGHT FIT is what the Prof who took your Application thought about it. So if the right Prof got your appln. and he wanted you, may be you got it. In simple there is a high level of randomness and so dont curse yourself for failure. Bad luck. 4. Finally this year is THE REAL BAD YEAR. Penn State that my son got and will not be taking seems to have hardly taken more than few Indians. Strange but true. Many with decent profile didn't get it. I am not even talking of WiscMad rejecting hordes for the MS Traditional program. Overall, it looks like that Covid year is a big game where the Colleges were trying to find the right match and they had invariably hangover of previous year students who had deferred it. 5. The scene might only improve marginally next year as per my guess. Since the carry flow of the deferrals and the space lost last year (by folks not joining) will get into the next academic year, I dont think situation will be same even in 2021-2022 as it was in 2019-2020 and before. So the trouble you saw this academic year might actually continue for one more year if flow control exists. Anyway colleges have their ways of dealing with it. 6. Finally, I find there are 2 types of US colleges. Ones that you pay and get a seat easily potentially with say 9+ and nothing more (Columbia, UPenn, USC and even quite a few branches of CMU and well WiscMad PMP!) and others where you need to slug it out. If my career in the SWindustry of the past means anything, nobody in US in a job really cares so much about college etc (the Tier based approach so sadly seen in Indian colleges!) once they are placed in a job. So if you joined NCSU and I joined Cornell, it is not really that in the end you are low class and I am high class. Please try to understand that. Something I tend to educate my son as well. The truth is you are worth what you are and the colleges took you for what they felt you were. Good luck.

Penn State (PSU) University Park
Computer Science Masters
April 30, 2021
Rejected on 30 Apr
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Rejected on 30 Apr
Fall 2021
International
Penn State (Pennsylvania State University)
Computer Science Masters
April 30, 2021
Rejected on 30 Apr
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Rejected on 30 Apr
Fall 2021
International
Penn State (Pennsylvania State University)
Computer Science Masters
April 30, 2021
Rejected on 30 Apr
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Rejected on 30 Apr
Fall 2021
International
Penn State (Pennsylvania State University)
Computer Science PhD
April 29, 2021
Rejected on 29 Apr
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Rejected on 29 Apr
Fall 2021
International

Generic rejection mail. Hopefully, I got accepted from another favorite school.

Penn State (PSU) University Park
Computer Science Masters
April 28, 2021
Accepted on 28 Apr
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Accepted on 28 Apr
Fall 2021
International
GPA 3.85

No GRE. Email received around 2 pm ET time. No communication/interview before receiving the offer. Most likely will decline, the deadline is 15 May,

Penn State (PSU) University Park
Computer Science Masters
April 07, 2021
Wait listed on 7 Apr
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Wait listed on 7 Apr
Fall 2021
International

*Ignore waitlist* TTPB: I haven't heard anything from Penn state either. Radio silence. Did they send any admits at all?

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